Are black families choosing homeschooling because schools are racist? That’s what a NY Times article suggests. The article pulls an anecdotal story of one family whose son learned at a white-dominated school that slaves were just receiving “on-the-job-training.”
I must say, if your school has any literature that words slavery in that manner, ALL parents should be at the next school board meeting demanding that racist agit prop be removed from school. If this story is indeed true (and I am operating under the assumption that it is), it doesn’t match what I learned about slavery in school, and I went to school back in the 1970s and 80s.
I grew up when the tv mini-series was on everyone’s mind. I watched the whole series with my family. I learned early on of the racist, genocidal history of America. I didn’t learn that I was responsible for it or that I should be treated like a sinner because of the actions others who had the same melatonin levels as me did evil things.
I may have learned about George Washington’s apple tree in elementary school. By high school, I learned he had slaves. I learned there was no apple tree. I didn’t learn that I was the creator of evil and that everyone that looked like me, looks like me, are the creators of evil too. I didn’t need to learn that lie to see the mixed results of the American experiment.
Hopefully, the article is merely anecdotal. I’d love to believe it was outright false. If it is not, let us hope people suffered consequences for allowing such evil to get into the minds of our children using taxpayer dollars to do so. It would be like telling children that their parents literally invented slavery and racism and now the new society is going to fix what these evil parents did to make everything so hateful and racist and bigoted. What kind of emotional trauma would that create in a forming mind?
I suspect there are many black families that are taking their kids out of school for far more reasons than the school is racist. I suspect a lot of kids in nearly-all-black schools are getting taken out of the system as well, as more and more Americans, of many races, come to see how damaged our current education truly is.
More than teaching children to hate each other, as our schools are currently doing, they are also teaching kids to pass standardized tests. They are cramming them with memory lists to pass tests that will create little lasting habits of action which these kids will find anywhere remotely useful in life.
They prepare them for a world by telling them everything that came before it is evil, so we will start with a clean slate, judging people based on their race, sexual preference, and gender alone (where race and gender become synonymous with ideology, so that ‘black’ is a politics plus black biology, while ‘white’ is a politics that overrides biology).
Perhaps many black families find such un-American actions as stigmatizing people based on their beliefs, gender, sexual preference, and race something they wish to protect their children from. Perhaps many families, of many races, are beginning to understand how important it is for all of us to be one American race, defined not by our DNA but by our commitment to live out the standards set out in the Bill of Rights with our neighbors.
We seek to live in a land where we don’t want, don’t need your approval, but demand your respect when we exchange value with one another. This is the land of the free, where tolerance still means never forcing anyone to approve of anyone or anything but treating everyone like their favorite cousin when they exchange value with them in shared American space, space not defined by free association fellowships but by public ones. I suspect that hope is shared by many, across many other divides.
It is a world that the authors of such stories wish to prevent us from having, a world where America keeps progressing towards her Bill of Rights potential, a potential that has already undone slavery and brought the women the vote, enabled gay and lesbian couples to have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples and is still challenging our assumptions of what it means to live in a land whose ultimate authority is rested in the state’s record on respecting each individual’s bills of rights, to treat everyone with respect as if they matter as much as you, even if you ‘know’ they clearly don’t.
Let us hope the families that do encounter such actual racism in our schools finds a truth out there that leads them to a shared hope in an America with Bill of Rights protections for all, in all our public spaces. Continuing down this path of factional division will only help America’s enemies, who hate the black American as much as they hate the Asian American as much as they hate the White American, etc, etc, etc.
The Chinese State loves the subterfuge, the self-hate, the doubt, the devastation on American morale that the DNC Left is pressing on us through its schools, its media, its control of the means of social and cultural production. Don’t become a useful political football in the DNC charade, black America. Stay with the Bill of Rights people. Divided we fall. Together we stand.
For Black Parents Resisting White-Washed History, Homeschooling Is an Increasingly Popular Option
From news.yahoo.com
2022-02-28 17:30:03
Excerpt:
Brian and Andrea Thomas help their two youngest children with their homeschooling lesson at their home in Richardson, Tx. on Feb. 23, 2022. Credit – Ilana Panich-Linsman for TIME
For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.
“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”
Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic…
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Homeschooling Has Become More Popular Among Black Families
From time.com
2022-02-28 17:30:00
Excerpt:
For Shari Rohan, it was a social-studies lesson that described enslaved people receiving “on-the-job training.” For Zanetta Lamar, it was the fact that her son was the only Black student in his grade. For Andrea Thomas, it was realizing just how little she had learned about Black history while attending both public and private schools.
“I did not want my children to have that same experience,” says Thomas, who, along with Rohan and Lamar, is now homeschooling her children, becoming part of a movement that once was seen as the domain of white, conservative families. “I wanted them to have a deeper understanding of history and the flaws within our history.”
Homeschooling increased nationwide after the pandemic disrupted in-person learning; among households with school-age children, the percentage who reported homeschooling them rose from…
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